Comments on: Super-useful inputrc

By: Doskey like tab completion and various other fixes /power user hacks for the mac console prompt (ctrl-left,right arrow) « Matt Brown – Journeys of a software engineer

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:19:43 +0000

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By: andre

andre — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:08:28 +0000

Debian has a file explaining this:

/usr/share/doc/bash/inputrc.arrows:
# This file controls the behaviour of line input editing for
# programs that use the Gnu Readline library.
#
# Arrow keys in keypad mode
#
“\C-[OD” backward-char
“\C-[OC” forward-char
“\C-[OA” previous-history
“\C-[OB” next-history
#
# Arrow keys in ANSI mode
#
“\C-[[D” backward-char
“\C-[[C” forward-char
“\C-[[A” previous-history
“\C-[[B” next-history
#
# Arrow keys in 8 bit keypad mode
#
“\C-M-OD” backward-char
“\C-M-OC” forward-char
“\C-M-OA” previous-history
“\C-M-OB” next-history
#
# Arrow keys in 8 bit ANSI mode
#
“\C-M-[D” backward-char
“\C-M-[C” forward-char
“\C-M-[A” previous-history
“\C-M-[B” next-history

By: Binny V A

Binny V A — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:57:39 +0000

Thanks for this post. If possible, can you and some comments to show which keys you are using? I know [5~, [6~ is Page up/Page down – but the rest have me a bit confused.

By: kwilliam

kwilliam — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:48:08 +0000

Thank you blog author and Marius Gedminas!
After much fruitless searching, I have finally gotten the console to use a visible bell instead of beeping loudly.

I added line
set bell-style visible
to ~/.inputrc
and added line
export INPUTRC=~/.inputrc
to ~/.bashrc

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:43:34 +0000

Whoops. Looks like somebody’s blog is converting double quote characters into posh quotes. Notice how there’s a difference between “these quotes” and "these"

By: omega

omega — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:23:53 +0000

kortina: if you typed “export INPUTRC=~/.inputrc” into your terminal that just sets the variable, doesn’t actually read the file. you either have to type it in your ~/.bash_profile or just put those settings in /etc/inputrc instead of locally.

oh, i’m not sure about if it works with iterm, i just use the Terminal in leopard (works just fine for me, i’ve yet to find something that iterm does and Terminal doesn’t – besides fullscreening which i don’t like anyway)

but yes, it does work with mac os x

By: Bryan Harris

Bryan Harris — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:26:18 +0000

Hi,

I think there is a man page, or an info page, or some kind of document in my system somewhere which tells me how the escape sequences work. Does anybody know where that file is at? I am using Slackware 12.0, and I thought I had seen that file before.